Headlines of note for December 2011

December 8 EU Summit: Europe hammers more nails into the coffin of its centuries-old system of Westphalian sovereignty...

PressEurope (El Pais): Farewell sweet sovereignty

The UK abstained from this self-immolation, however...

Telegraph: David Cameron has put his faith in the City and now it must repay him

After all, how would a hammer hammer itself? - namely, the City of London. Some background, from across the ideological spectrum, on the City as the heart of sovereignty-stripping financial oligarchy...

London School of Economics: The City of London and its Tax Haven Empire

The City of London is an offshore island inside the British nation state, floating partly free from the democratic rules and restraints that bind the rest of us and fed by a network of tax havens around the world...

international socialist group: London - Heart of Empire and the Global City

biblebelievers.org: The Empire of "The City"

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Calling all NATO R2P bombers, to LA...

Bradblog: New Testimonials by Occupy LA Detainees Suggest Illegal Arrests, Abuse, Even Torture by LAPD, LASD

...to Saudi Arabia...

WhoWhatWhy: The Saudi Arab Spring Nobody Noticed

But unfortunately NATO is otherwise "occupied"...

Reuters: Pakistan army believes NATO attack planned

Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): The shadow war in Syria

Boiling Frogs Post: Hundreds of US-NATO Soldiers Arrive & Begin Operations on the Jordan-Syria Border

NATO and Al Qaeda: rooting for the same team again...

Jihadica: Al-Qaida advises the Arab Spring - Syria

In Libya, should we call them al KKKaeda or al Keystone Kops...?

Telegraph: Leading Libyan Islamist met Free Syrian Army opposition group

Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and the former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, "met with Free Syrian Army leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey," said a military official working with Mr Belhadj. "Mustafa Abdul Jalil (the interim Libyan president) sent him there."

The "covert operation" was immediately laid bare when a rival Libyan rebel brigade detained Belhaj at Tripoli airport, accused him of travelling on a fake passport, and declared they would jail the senior military leader.

Only a letter from the country's interim president was enough to persuade them to let him leave the country.

More mishaps...

Business Week: Libya’s Top General Says Son Abducted by Militia in Capital

Mishaps in Iran...

PressTV: Iran airs footage of downed US drone

And yet another major mishap for the CIA...

Daily Star: Collapse of CIA operations benefits Iran

...may have borne bitter fruit for the captured Western-looking snipers seen towards the end of this video (though it is unclear when and where it was shot)...

Oxyism: US SNIPER SQUAD CAUGHT ON VIDEO IN SYRIA

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Soros color revolution strategy now shooting for the big one: Russia...

Land Destroyer: US Attempts to Overthrow Russian Government!

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Sheryl Attkisson gets closer to the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal, in what is quite a scoop for a mainstream media outlet; though this was understood to be the raison d'être for the program all along by those in the "conspiracy theory" world: the problem/reaction/solution dialectic at play...

CBS: Documents - ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations

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In Police State news...

On December 31st, Obama signs the NDAA 2012, thereby declaring every U.S. citizen to be a potential enemy of the state, with the determination of such status to be entirely at the discretion of the executive branch. This signing opens what we greatly fear will be a chain of events culminating in civil war, the outcome of which we are less than optimistic will be favorable to the rule of law in the good ol' USA. As we joked in last month's headline summary, Obama should immediately have himself indefinitely detained, in so far as his war against Qadaffi has provided Al Qaeda with a new safe haven in Libya. But the reality is that any who shirk not of the opinion that Obama himself is an enemy of the state are at risk of being detained or even killed at his discretion. Since it is merely your word against his, calling one another traitors, without recourse to the forum of a court system to adjudicate such disputes, the one with the force of coercion, the predator drones, will then prevail. Rule of law is no more; now might makes right. This goes for everyone with a low opinion of the "Viceroy". True, the language of the NDAA limits such executive action to supporters of Al Qaeda and affiliated groups. But, all it will take to expand these provisions to domestic opposition is another staged terror attack like the Oklahoma City Bombing. Following such an event, we can expect to see, for instance, Mike Vanderbough and his "Merry Band of Three Percenters" to be added to an executive hit list...

SipseyStreetIrregulars: National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012. What does it do, or not do? More importantly, does it constitute a declaration of war on the people?

As the infrastructure for domestic detention becomes operational...

Infowars: Government Activating FEMA Camps Across U.S.

And as the federal "deputization" of local police expands...

Business Insider: The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US

The war against the people has already begun...

LATimes: Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front

Another surveillance technology we might expect to see soon deployed in the U.S.: radiosondes, as these are apparently following the same R & D path through Middle Eastern proving grounds...

Intelnews: Who is behind mystery spy devices dropped over Syria?


And if an American insurrection or, for that matter, a global insurrection cannot be subdued, there is this option...

Independent: Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu

Happy New Year.

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Finally, some updates on old news...

Another data-dump from...

WikiLeaks: The Spy files

Sibel Edmonds tells more on her brief but very informative employment as an FBI wiretap translator...

Corbett Report: Interview - Sibel Edmonds

USNews: FDR warned of Pearl Harbor attack days in advance

PESN: The History of MIT's Blatant Suppression of Cold Fusion

Johnny Piss Tool

The name, John S. Pistole, automatically conjures to self-respecting travelers such scatological expressions as... "Mr. Pee-Stool," "Big Bowel, John 'the Pervert' Pistole," and "Pisshole".

But, unfortunately, while sticks and stones might break his bones, names will not deter him and his motley band of molesters, as they poke around in everything from your grandma's underpants...

New American: Grandma, 84, Strip Searched by TSA, Says U.S. in “Big Trouble”

...to your Christmas presents...

CBSLA: TSA Warns Travelers Not To Smuggle Carry-On Items In Christmas Gift Wrap

...to your personal history...

Daily Miner: TSA announces start of pre-check operations

...to inside your head...

TSA: Behavior Detection Officers

And if you think you can avoid this by not flying...

RT: TSA to start searching ground transportation

No expense will be denied this monstrously proliferating agency. Meanwhile, the Post Office, one of a handful of federal agencies that is constitutionally mandated, struggles to survive...

The People's Voice: Wrecking America's Postal Service

Putin suggests SEMEN join FEMEN

Wayne Madsen reported last weekend that, according to his sources, much of the funding for the recent "White Revolution" protests in Russia is coming from the Soros foundations network with the assistance of US-UK intelligence services in order to destabilize the country...

WMR: CIA/Soros funneling money through Georgia to Russian protesters

The western media is mocking Russian Prime Minister for suggesting during a television interview that when he saw protesters in Moscow wearing white ribbons, he thought they were wearing condoms. Putin said, "I decided it was propaganda against AIDS, that these were, pardon me, dangling contraceptives . . . I didn't really get it . . . But on the whole, my first thought was that this is good, that people are fighting for a healthy lifestyle." Putin said he could not understand why people unrolled a condom (gandon) before pinning it to their chest.

In fact, Putin, a KGB veteran, was signalling to the West's disruption network in Russia and neighboring countries that he is aware of how the protesters are receiving their funding from the West, including Soros, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) -- the main cipher for CIA funds -- and MI-6...

Some of the money earmarked for HIV/AIDS prevention in Georgia by USAID is being diverted to Russian dissident groups, according to our eastern European intelligence source...

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Putin, it is true, does have at times a subtle way of sending messages to the West that otherwise cannot be said too bluntly; for instance, in the wake of the Beslan school massacre in 2004, he implied to a group of Western reporters that the US and UK governments were responsible for the massacre through their support for Chechen terrorists...

DachaDude(Webster Tarpley): PUTIN AND PRESS ON BESLAN

So Madsen could well be right that Putin was sending a message concerning geo-political matters. But there is also room for double-entendre here. If we follow the carnal logic of Putin's statement, in saying he mistook the white ribbons for condoms, he was of course implying that they were spent condoms, filled with semen. Now we would imagine that Putin could not help but notice another group participating in the protests...

HuffPo: FEMEN, Ukrainian Women's Rights Group, Protests Russian Elections (TOPLESS PHOTOS)

And so, in saying, "my first thought was that this is good, that people are fighting for a healthy lifestyle," he was only suggesting that the males and females should enjoy a healthy lifestyle together.

More FEMEN aktions...

ChanceTV: Russia's Topless Warriors

Cryptome: FEMEN Protest Photos

December 16: Day of Insurrection. It was on this day four years ago, in commemorating the Boston Tea party of 1773, that the Ron Paul presidential campaign broke its own record for money raised in a single day, previously set (for the Republican primary) on Guy Fawks Day, November the 5th. With these two "money bombs," Ron Paul's supporters anticipated what would become the symbols for the right and left sides of the new American insurgency. The tea bag &/or the three cornered hat for the TEA Party and the Guy Fawkes mask for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Of course, these movements would be vulnerable to hijacking by certain interested establishment parties who would seek to redirect these insurrections into something more manageable, or even profitable. As the TEA Party was "astro-turfed" by the Koch brothers, on the right side of the duopolist system, George Soros on the left would similarly attempt to capture the OWS movement.

A notable difference between the two, however, is in the timing and the results of these redirections. The TEA party, having its origins with Ron Paul supporters, was genuinely grass roots at its inception, only to be later hijacked by certain factions of the Republican establishment and effectively controlled, as much of the performance of the freshman TEA party Republicans in Congress has demonstrated - they have (with some exceptions) essentially become the new vehicle for neo-conservative concerns on foreign policy matters, jettisoning Ron Paul's anti-war stance in favor of a strong military, bolstered by the Islamophobia that characterized the Bush years. The OWS movement on the other hand was apparently seeded by Soros foundation money at its inception - at least in so far as Adbusters might be considered a Soros front organization, though the extent of this is disputed.

In any case, there was some money to be made by the very wealthy interests that the movement decried...

DailyMail: How Guy Fawkes, the man who tried to murder a king and a government became a symbol of anti-capitalist protesters across the globe

It is estimated that 100,000 masks were sold last year.

The terrible irony is that the mask is a paid-for product, owned by a major corporation.

Time Warner owns the rights to the masks and with every mask sold more money is deposited into that corporation's bank account.

The movement is working its way around that with replica masks.
According to CNN, replicas are now being mass produced in Asia

London protester Joshua Whitfield, 19, told CNN that instead of buying an officially licensed mask at a store in the city, he bought one considerably cheaper from an Anonymous member.

He said: 'Some people wear it to make a fashion statement, others because they know what it's about...'

Oh really?

Terrorism: Guy Fawkes - Inside Job

Nevertheless, there are encouraging signs that the occupiers aren't falling for the same party ruses that the TEA party fell for...

Washington Post: Occupy DC targets Congressional Democrats

"Hope and change, that's a lie, listen to Occupy."

And, further evidence that this thing could be "out of control"...

CleanandSafePorts: AN OPEN LETTER FROM AMERICA’S PORT TRUCK DRIVERS ON OCCUPY THE PORTS

A Romp with Newt?

Heard on right-wing radio the other day...

Michael Savage to the women of America: would you sleep with the Pillsbury Dough Boy?
Of course not, and this is why Newt Gingrich can't beat Obama: women voters won't elect a president they wouldn't want to have starring in their sexual fantasies.

Well, given his comments on past indiscretions...

"There's no question at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life were not appropriate"

Instead of calling out another woman's name while in the throws of passion, a lady might hear Newt scream:

Oh baby... America... take it yeahh you know you love it Americaaaaah....